I've been surprised at the number of editors who watchlist my talk page, but the experiences invariably been positive. In some cases my talk page has been vandalized, and I don't think I've ever been the first to see the vandalism, I invariably see that the TPS has reverted it. More importantly, on several occasions I've been involved in a discussion with an editor and a TPS has volunteered very helpful advice.
I have no idea whether it's technically possible to stop such behavior but I don't particularly care as I am adamantly opposed to stopping it.
I get that some people might see the term "stalker" as negative, given that it is almost always a term self invoked, it doesn't make my list of the top 1000 things to worry about.
Sphilbrick
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Yeah, I don't guess this is a matter of whether it is technically possible, but rather if the community would like to allow such functionality (what would then stop a troll to selectively disable all admins to watch his/her talkpage?)
Lodewijk
2016-05-27 6:31 GMT+02:00 James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com:
Talk pages are for communication. If people were unable to watch these pages they would become less useful.
J
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Newyorkbrad newyorkbrad@gmail.com wrote:
"Talkpage watcher" would do fine.
Newyorkbrad/IBM
On 5/26/16, David Goodman dggenwp@gmail.com wrote:
talk-page stalker is not necessarily an unfriendly term. It's meant
as
an
explanation for why the person saw the question, and posted there.
But
perhaps we could find a better term for this, as stalker does have unfortunate connotations.
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Trillium Corsage <
trillium2014@yandex.com>
wrote:
My English Wikipedia talkpage is watchlisted by a surprising number
of
users that I have no cooperative or friendly editing relationship
with.
Some of them refer to themselves as "talkpage stalkers." Might it be possible for a user to prohibit such persons from watchlisting him
or
her?
If it's not possible to selectively prohibit, how about an on/off
switch,
i.e. *no-one* may watchlist an editor's individual talkpage.
Trillium Corsage
21.05.2016, 02:20, "Johan Jönsson" <email clipped>:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Danny Horn dhorn@wikimedia.org
wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > WMF's Community Tech team is starting to work on a Cross-wiki
watchlist,
> one of the top 10 wishes in the Community Wishlist Survey that
we
conducted
> at the end of last year. [1] > > We're running a survey on how people use their watchlists, to
help
inform
> our work.
Hi everyone,
A couple of months ago, the Community Tech team ran a survey to
gather
information on how Wikimedians use their watchlists. You can see
the
results here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist#Survey_r...
If you're interested, there are also some very early and rough wireframes available on the project page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist#Current_...
//Johan Jönsson
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